METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RENDERING A MULTIMEDIA ITEM WITH A PLURALITY OF MODALITIES

• US 20120216120A1
• Filed: 10/28/2010
• Published: 08/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TP Vision Holding BV (TPV Technology Co., Ltd. (f/k/a Nanjing Huadong Electronics Information & Technology))
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: De Haan, Gerard
• Application Number:
  US13/505,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20120216120A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/73 Colour balance circuits, e.g. white balance circuits or colour temperature control camera processing pipelines for colour balance H04N23/88
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 3/002 Non-adaptive circuits, e.g. manually adjustable or static, for enhancing the sound image or the spatial distribution control circuits for electronic adaptation of the sound field H04S7/30

Abstract

A method and apparatus for rendering a multimedia item with a plurality of modalities is provided. Parameter settings are determined for a plurality of modalities according to a user input request (step 206). The multimedia item is rendered with the determined Render menu of modes 202 modality parameter settings (step 208).

Claims

1. A method for rendering a multimedia item with a plurality of modalities, the method comprising the steps of:

determining (206) parameter settings for said plurality of modalities according to a user input request; and

rendering (208) said multimedia item with said determined modality parameter settings.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of modalities includes at least one of audio, video and ambient lighting.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said plurality of modalities includes at least two of audio, video and ambient lighting.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein said plurality of modalities includes audio, video and ambient lighting.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the parameter settings for audio include at least one of volume, tempo, treble and bass, stereo-base width, surround, and dynamic range.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the parameter settings for video include at least one of contrast, colour saturation, sharpness, and dimensions.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein the parameter settings for ambient lighting include at least one of colour, light intensity, dynamic range, saturation and pace of light change.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of providing a range for said user input request.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said user input request corresponds to an immersive effect.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein said user input request corresponds to a low immersive effect.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein said user input request corresponds to a high immersive effect.

12. A computer program product comprising a plurality of program code portions for carrying out the method according to claim 1.

13. Apparatus for rendering a multimedia item with a plurality of modalities, the apparatus comprising:

a processor (104) for determining parameter settings for said plurality of modalities according to a user input request; and

a rendering device (106) for rendering said multimedia item with said determined modality parameter settings.